How to Play the First Measure of Jingle Bells

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am Brand Gunnel. I am a music teacher in Orlando, Florida. I teach piano and guitar. I am here today on behalf of Expert Village to teach you how to play Jingle Bells on your piano. Okay, this is going to be pretty easy to play with your hands. We are going down here in C position. What that means is your are going to take your thumb as one, your index as two, your middle as three, your ring as four and your pinkie as five. We are going to lay them down starting with your thumb on middle C. Just let them all fall right in line, C,D, E, F and G. Those are the only notes we are going to be using on our right hand. On our left hand, we are going to put C,D,E,F,G with your thumb one on G, right there. Those are the only notes we are going to be using on our left hand with one slight exception. We are going to be using the F sharp just once in the seventh measure, so just be ready for that. But we are going to have C,D,E,F,G, and then C,D,E,F,G. The time signature on this is four four. What that means is every measure is going to get four beats. So, if you notice when I play the first thing it is going to sound 1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4, like that, okay."